Monthly Archives: September 2009

USB Driver for Nikon GP-1 GPS now available

USB Driver for Nikon GP-1 GPS now available in Japan – this driver will let you connect the GP-1 to a Windows based computer and get location coordinates directly from the device.

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Nikon D300 officially discontinued

Nikon D300 is now officially discontinued according to Nikon Japan (English translation).

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Your feedback

The next few days will be all about the Leica M9 and Leica X1. I will use this opportunity to check the pulse of NikonRumors. This is the time where I am going to ask you for ideas, suggestion, critique, etc. Based on your previous feedback, I have started the NikonRumors forum (now 1172 users […]

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Nikon related news/links

Sigma released a new telephoto zoom lens: 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG OS (Nikon mount will be available). Interview with Nikon’s President: China becomes market with potential. Nikon UK drops price of D5000 DSLR by £100. Nikon Canada also reduced their prices last week. More to follow? Nikon now says S1000pj p&s is on track for September […]

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Hot Nikon news that might have lots of Canon gear going cheap (Nikon D700x)

Christian Fletcher is a well known professional photographer from Western Australia and has been a Canon fan for many years – his camera is a Canon 5D MKII. He shoots mainly landscape / panorama. This is what he wrote on his blog a week ago (direct post link): Note that his post is labeled with […]

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Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II VC LD Aspherical IF (Nikon mount)

New lens was announced today: Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II VC LD Aspherical IF lens (actually few sites leaked it already yesterday). This is a DX lens with a new Vibration Compensation (VC) mechanism and has 6 years warranty (product web page). Price: US$649 (Amazon is taking pre-orders). Availability: September. Full press release after the break:

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Nikon D300s movie recording issue (not confirmed)

I received this tip anonymously – I have no idea if the described issue is real or not (my D300s is still on order). Please take this with a grain of salt until we get some real reports from the field: D300s movie recording issue Apparently D300s has few issues with movie recording. below is […]

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